What they did: Injuries to Travis Zajac and Jacob Josefson opened up ice time for Henrique in New Jersey. He moved up to the top line with Zach Parise and Ilya Kovalchuk and led all rookies with 35 assists. He was arguably the club’s most dangerous player down the stretch and in the playoffs. . . . Landeskog was touted as the most NHL-ready player from the 2011 draft. He went on to lead the Avs with a plus-20 and averaged 18:36 of ice time, tops among rookies. . . . Nugent-Hopkins, who missed 20 games because of injuries, had five assists vs. Chicago on Nov. 19, only the fourth rookie to do it.

What they did: Malkin was dominant and won the scoring title with Sidney Crosby on the shelf for three-quarters of the season. . . . All Stamkos did was become the 20th player in NHL history to score 60 goals, including 10 over Tampa’s final nine games. . . . Lundqvist is the first goalie in five years and the eighth since 1980 to be a Hart finalist. He was first in save percentage, second in goals-against and third in wins.

What they did: Lundqvist put up career bests in save percentage (.930), goals-against average (1.97) and wins (39). . . . Quick led the league in shutouts (10) on a team that struggled to score. He was second in wins, but the Kings lost 10 times when Quick allowed two goals or less. . . . Rinne led the NHL with 43 wins.

What they did: Chara is gunning for his second Norris (he’s been nominated five times) and remains a dominant presence. At 35, he had his best offensive season with 52 points, led all D-men with more than 25 minutes per game, and was third in the league with a plus-33. . . . Karlsson — who was rewarded with a seven-year, $45.5 million contract extension Tuesday — tied for 10th in league scoring with 78 points, most by a D-man since Nicklas Lidstrom in 2005-06 (80). . . . Weber equalled Karlsson’s 19 goals and led NHL defencemen with 10 power-play goals.

Who should win: Weber, twice a runner-up, in closest race of all the awards

What they did: Hitchcock took over a 6-7-0 Blues team and went 43-15-11 the rest of the way for the club’s best mark since 2000. . . . The Senators improved by 18 points in MacLean’s first year. . . . Tortorella’s Rangers posted their best season since 1993-94. He won the Adams in 2004 with the Lightning and is trying to become the first Rangers coach ever to win it.

What they did: Backes led the Blues in hits, blocked shots, takeaways and faceoffs. He also led all NHL forwards in Behind the Net’s Quality of Competition stat, which determined that the players he faced had the league’s highest plus-minus mark on average. . . . Bergeron led the league with a plus-36 rating. . . . Datsyuk is a perennial Selke finalist, but this season he took only 14 penalty minutes, the fewest in his career.

What they did: Campbell played in all 82 games and went to the penalty box just three times —once after the all-star break. . . . Eberle chopped his penalty minutes from 22 to 10 and turned in career highs in goals (34), assists (42), points (76) and power-play goals (10). . . . Moulson did not take a penalty in the final 47 games of the season and was the first player since Paul Kariya in 1996-97 to score at least 30 goals and post single-digit penalty minutes (6).

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